Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's ed. with additional plates and letterpress1885 |
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... manner , it may be observed , all shoemakers are divided into three classes - those who breed canaries , those who play on fiddles , and those who do neither the one or the other . Were it not for the " musical souter " in etching and ...
... manner , it may be observed , all shoemakers are divided into three classes - those who breed canaries , those who play on fiddles , and those who do neither the one or the other . Were it not for the " musical souter " in etching and ...
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... manners , and circumstances , was very surprising . The writer of this article , who was kindly admitted an honorary member of the St Luke's Club of artists , has there often had the good fortune to see Geikie entertaining large ...
... manners , and circumstances , was very surprising . The writer of this article , who was kindly admitted an honorary member of the St Luke's Club of artists , has there often had the good fortune to see Geikie entertaining large ...
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... manner of the finale will be the same . Grave consultations of the kind here represented meet the observer's eye at every fair and market of Scotland . Sellers and buyers are to be noticed everywhere , eagerly driving their bargains ...
... manner of the finale will be the same . Grave consultations of the kind here represented meet the observer's eye at every fair and market of Scotland . Sellers and buyers are to be noticed everywhere , eagerly driving their bargains ...
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... manner : - " John was a curious witty little fellow , with a round face and a broad nose . None of his companions could answer the many witty . questions he proposed to them , therefore he became the wonder of the age in which he lived ...
... manner : - " John was a curious witty little fellow , with a round face and a broad nose . None of his companions could answer the many witty . questions he proposed to them , therefore he became the wonder of the age in which he lived ...
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... manner in which the houses are designed and etched . The glimpse of the sky given is in itself very pleasing . The group around the stall in front contains individuals of some local note in their day , but not worthy of having their ...
... manner in which the houses are designed and etched . The glimpse of the sky given is in itself very pleasing . The group around the stall in front contains individuals of some local note in their day , but not worthy of having their ...
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
admirable after-not Alloway Kirk appearance artist attitude auld bairn bargain bawbee bonnet braw Brodie character countenance Cowgate creel Crummie douce dress Edinburgh face fair feeling figure fish fishwife frae Garker Geikie GEIKIE'S ETCHINGS genius Graham purchased Grassmarket gude guidman hame hand haud head heart honour human humble humour ilka interest labour laird lasses Leith Libberton Lochaber ax look mair mind mony nature neighbours never Newhaven night observed occasion ower owre Patrick Fraser Tytler peculiar picture pipe plate pleasure poet poor possession present purchase ROBERT FERGUSSON scene Scotland Scots Scottish seen Shanter shoemaker sketch smile snopt song souter stand street thou toil town unco WALTER GEIKIE wares weary weel Whan whole William Brodie worthy Wynd yaudies youth
Népszerű szakaszok
78. oldal - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
79. oldal - Needy knife-grinder ! whither are you going ? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast • — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches ! " Weary knife-grinder ! little think the proud ones Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day, ' Knives and Scissors to grind O...
79. oldal - Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining ? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit ? (Have you not read the " Rights of Man," by Tom Paine ?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
52. oldal - Ne'er to these chambers, where the mighty rest, Since their foundation, came a nobler guest, Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. In what new region, to the just assigned, What new employments please th' unbodied mind ? A winged Virtue, through th' ethereal sky, From world to world unwearied does he fly?
63. oldal - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the...
66. oldal - For women, born to be controll'd, Stoop to the forward and the bold, Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Who first the generous steed oppress'd, Not kneeling did salute the beast, But with high courage, life, and force, Approaching, tam'd th